Tell City Junior-Senior High School students posted two banners in City Hall Park Thursday, signed by all of the junior-high and most of the high-school students, according to Mayor Barbara Ewing, third from the left.

TELL CITY – The Tell City Common Council has approved wages and salaries for city employees, keeping in place a small increase adopted this summer for 2011. No additional pay increases are planned for next year as the city continues to control costs in the face of uncertain future funding.

The council approved across-the-board increases of 25 cents per hour in September and those raises, the first for 2010, took effect Oct. 1.

CANNELTON – Cannelton Mayor Smokey Graves said Monday he’s not comfortable permitting anything that would increase the number of inoperable cars in the city.

He was responding at a regular meeting of the Cannelton Board of Public Works and Safety to a request by Wayne Greer of Perry County Auto Sales and Towing to vacate streets in the city so he can move the business from its current location near Hospital Road in Tell City.

PERRY COUNTY – Santa Claus has Friday and Sunday circled on his calendar as he prepares to serve as the guest of honor at two post-Thanksgiving Christmas parades. The city of Cannelton will kick off the yuletide season with its 6 p.m. parade Friday.

Tell City’s parade is Sunday at 4 p.m. with activities in City Hall Park and Main street from 2 to 4.

Cannelton’s annual Christmas parade is sponsored by Harry G. Myers American Legion Post 142 with support of its auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion.